I am an African American who started life not knowing or even hearing AAE, AAL, or AAVE. My family is from the eastern seaboard, mainly Connecticut, Massachusetts, and New York, and have been since disembarking various boats from Africa. Some of my ancestors came to the east coast from the Caribbean, namely, Trinidad, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, and Barbados. My maternal great-grandparents were both born in 1877. My great-grandmother in Lee, Massachusetts and my great-grandfather in Philadelphia. They were African-American entertainers who toured throughout and lived primarily in Europe: Paris, the UK, and Germany. Their children were born overseas in 1905 and 1907 with the exception of my grandmother who was born in the US in 1910. At that time, 90% of the African-American population lived south of the Mason-Dixon Line. In the 1930s, my great-grandparents retired to the States and bought a country house in upstate NY in an area populated mostly with German immigrants. They were the only people of color in town. My mother bounced between their home and my grandmother’s home in Brooklyn. My mother got married and came to California. My grandmother and her husband came here in 1965 to be near us kids, who are my family’s first generation Californians natives. My mother spoke in what they used to call “Brooklynese”. If you listen to a young Barbara Streisand, that was my mother’s accent. She used words like “frankfurter”, “dungarees”, and “sneakers”. Native Californians say “tennis shoes”. My mom eventually adopted a semi-California accent. My grandmother never did. She sounded like an old New York Jew. If you listen to George Burns or Milton Beryl’s accent, that was my grandmother. We only lived in white neighborhoods in the Ocean Park neighborhood of Santa Monica, where my grandmother bought an apartment building near the beach, and in Venice. In the 1970s, my mother got a job in Los Angeles and we moved to a predominantly Jewish neighborhood on L.A.’s west side. There were only a couple of Black kids in our new neighborhood, but there were many at our new school, all of whom, when I asked, told me they were born in the South or their parents were. Most were from Texas, Louisiana, or Arkansas. I was super excited to have Black friends. Although I’d had white friends were I was from, I’d never felt as welcomed or automatically accepted like I did by my new Black friends and their families. Nevertheless, I was teased because of my accent and was constantly asked why I “talked so proper”. I and my siblings had the typical, mid 20th-century, white, California Coastal (surfer), Valley Girl accent. Prime examples would be Marsha Brady of the Brady Bunch and Wally Cleaver of Leave it to Beaver. Both actors are from Southern California. I soon learned and adopted AAVE and AAE/AAL (much more than my siblings who weren’t interested or so inclined). I wanted to fit in and hated being teased. As an outsider looking in, I can honestly say, it is indeed a language of its own. I not only learned things like double negatives, a new vocabulary, new ways of conjugating verbs, a new accent, and new expressions, there were new intonations, interjections, and exclamations, none of which I’d heard before. I remember spending the night at a friend’s house who was from Chicago. She handed me something and said, “Put this up for me.” I’d never heard that before. I began to raise it in the air. She said, “What are you doing?” I said, “You told me to put it up”. “Nooo.”, she said. “I mean, put it AWAY.” I’d never heard “put it up” or “put that up” in my life. I also learned that “Where do you stay?” means “Where do you live?” and that “scary” means what we would refer to as “chicken” or “fearful”. In actuality, “scary” can literally mean “easily frightened” or “timid”, but it isn’t used that way in Standard American English. Perhaps it’s a throwback to EARLY Modern American English, which is the type of English enslaved people were first exposed to and what largely informs AAVE and AAE/AAL to this day. I learned that “play” means to pretend or to kid around or pull pranks, as in, you play too much”, “I’m just playing”, or “play cousin”. I learned a million other things which are too many to name. It is astonishing how many things we say originated in AAVE, especially now. It wasn’t like that in the 50s, 60, and 70s. Today, It has become much more integrated into mainstream, Standard American English. For instance, today, everyone says “y’all”. Back then, it was strictly Southern. And, mainly due to the hip-hop phenomenon, people today are using AAVE and AAE/AAL all around the world. 🌎
It's getting to the Point that we as people are finding out we are actually indigenous Americas. Meaning Americas. That term black/African American meaning not original people, a creature. Black/African American is a title word also mean enslaved in our own motherland. Created by United States. That term is really negative on our people and have a cause n a effect. United States is actually English from the original colonies briton/England. However we as Americans ancestors did treaties with Briton/England this how and why we are speaking English not kinda our Ameridians language. We should be speaking Ameridians language. What we speaking is broken English. Which its good. We as people have to break the spell. See I can go on with this.
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I am an African American who started life not knowing or even hearing AAE, AAL, or AAVE.
My family is from the eastern seaboard, mainly Connecticut, Massachusetts, and New York, and have been since disembarking various boats from Africa. Some of my ancestors came to the east coast from the Caribbean, namely, Trinidad, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, and Barbados.
My maternal great-grandparents were both born in 1877. My great-grandmother in Lee, Massachusetts and my great-grandfather in Philadelphia. They were African-American entertainers who toured throughout and lived primarily in Europe: Paris, the UK, and Germany. Their children were born overseas in 1905 and 1907 with the exception of my grandmother who was born in the US in 1910. At that time, 90% of the African-American population lived south of the Mason-Dixon Line.
In the 1930s, my great-grandparents retired to the States and bought a country house in upstate NY in an area populated mostly with German immigrants. They were the only people of color in town. My mother bounced between their home and my grandmother’s home in Brooklyn.
My mother got married and came to California. My grandmother and her husband came here in 1965 to be near us kids, who are my family’s first generation Californians natives.
My mother spoke in what they used to call “Brooklynese”. If you listen to a young Barbara Streisand, that was my mother’s accent. She used words like “frankfurter”, “dungarees”, and “sneakers”. Native Californians say “tennis shoes”. My mom eventually adopted a semi-California accent. My grandmother never did. She sounded like an old New York Jew. If you listen to George Burns or Milton Beryl’s accent, that was my grandmother.
We only lived in white neighborhoods in the Ocean Park neighborhood of Santa Monica, where my grandmother bought an apartment building near the beach, and in Venice. In the 1970s, my mother got a job in Los Angeles and we moved to a predominantly Jewish neighborhood on L.A.’s west side.
There were only a couple of Black kids in our new neighborhood, but there were many at our new school, all of whom, when I asked, told me they were born in the South or their parents were. Most were from Texas, Louisiana, or Arkansas.
I was super excited to have Black friends. Although I’d had white friends were I was from, I’d never felt as welcomed or automatically accepted like I did by my new Black friends and their families.
Nevertheless, I was teased because of my accent and was constantly asked why I “talked so proper”. I and my siblings had the typical, mid 20th-century, white, California Coastal (surfer), Valley Girl accent. Prime examples would be Marsha Brady of the Brady Bunch and Wally Cleaver of Leave it to Beaver. Both actors are from Southern California.
I soon learned and adopted AAVE and AAE/AAL (much more than my siblings who weren’t interested or so inclined). I wanted to fit in and hated being teased. As an outsider looking in, I can honestly say, it is indeed a language of its own. I not only learned things like double negatives, a new vocabulary, new ways of conjugating verbs, a new accent, and new expressions, there were new intonations, interjections, and exclamations, none of which I’d heard before.
I remember spending the night at a friend’s house who was from Chicago. She handed me something and said, “Put this up for me.” I’d never heard that before. I began to raise it in the air. She said, “What are you doing?” I said, “You told me to put it up”. “Nooo.”, she said. “I mean, put it AWAY.” I’d never heard “put it up” or “put that up” in my life.
I also learned that “Where do you stay?” means “Where do you live?” and that “scary” means what we would refer to as “chicken” or “fearful”. In actuality, “scary” can literally mean “easily frightened” or “timid”, but it isn’t used that way in Standard American English. Perhaps it’s a throwback to EARLY Modern American English, which is the type of English enslaved people were first exposed to and what largely informs AAVE and AAE/AAL to this day.
I learned that “play” means to pretend or to kid around or pull pranks, as in, you play too much”, “I’m just playing”, or “play cousin”. I learned a million other things which are too many to name.
It is astonishing how many things we say originated in AAVE, especially now. It wasn’t like that in the 50s, 60, and 70s. Today, It has become much more integrated into mainstream, Standard American English. For instance, today, everyone says “y’all”. Back then, it was strictly Southern. And, mainly due to the hip-hop phenomenon, people today are using AAVE and AAE/AAL all around the world. 🌎
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I wish you would , i like that one, i picture a mom telling that to her son : )
Which Playlist black English goes into? Cuz I wanna watch all of the videos of black stuff I'm fond it.
I can put them in a playlist
@@EverythingAmericanEnglish yes make a playlist please
You were doing too much with the Mom example 😂😅.
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It's getting to the Point that we as people are finding out we are actually indigenous Americas. Meaning Americas. That term black/African American meaning not original people, a creature. Black/African American is a title word also mean enslaved in our own motherland. Created by United States. That term is really negative on our people and have a cause n a effect. United States is actually English from the original colonies briton/England. However we as Americans ancestors did treaties with Briton/England this how and why we are speaking English not kinda our Ameridians language. We should be speaking Ameridians language. What we speaking is broken English. Which its good. We as people have to break the spell. See I can go on with this.
I really have a crush on You. You're so damn cute